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Paterson, Lindsay – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
A unique series of surveys of school leavers in Scotland (1952-98) is used to investigate long-term developments in the transition of young people from school. Transitions changed greatly in the half century, and varied by sex and socio-economic status. School attainment became increasingly important in giving school leavers access to post-school…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Björn Högberg; Mattias Strandh – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
School stress is widespread among students' worldwide, impacting academic success and mental health. Most research focuses on average stress levels but lacks insights into temporal trends and inequalities. Using repeated longitudinal survey data on 33,000 students in Swedish compulsory school from the Evaluation Through Follow-up (ETF) study, we…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Stress Variables, Academic Achievement, Mental Health
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Paterson, Lindsay – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
The relationship between students' entry to higher education and the history or status of the secondary school which they attended is examined using school leavers' surveys in Scotland stretching from the early 1950s to the late 1990s. The surveys are unique in the length of this period, their details of the higher-education institutions and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational History, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries
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Florence Ran; Jesse Eze; Yuxin Lin – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Significance: College algebra traditionally serves as the default math requirement for community college students. Lattimore and Depenbrock (2017) reported that approximately two-thirds of community college enrollees are required to take this course, yet nearly 80% fail to complete it, making it "the single most failed course in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Guided Pathways, Community College Students, College Students
Candal, Cara Stillings – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2023
In Spring 2022, Pioneer Institute published "The Boston Publics Schools' Road to Receivership," which detailed the findings of the 2019 state-commissioned, third-party report evaluating outcomes and operations in the Boston Public Schools (BPS). The report was scathing, citing years of declining enrollment, low test scores, financial…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Educational Change
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Jaoul-Grammare, Magali – European Journal of Education, 2022
One of the specificities of French higher education is that there is no single higher education system but two compartmentalised and hierarchical higher education systems comprising (1) universities and (2) "grande école" higher education institutions. Competing for a place in the latter requires that students have succeeded in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Equal Education, Geographic Regions, Social Differences
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Lee, Jack T. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2023
Recent calls for the decolonization of the academy demand recognition for diverse canons of knowledge. Asia's economic ascent also imparts rising confidence among Asian scholars and institutions to promote indigenous knowledge. While these global calls for emancipation are invigorating, decolonial scholarship is prone to sterile theorization,…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Indigenous Knowledge, Economic Development, Asians
Emily E. Usher – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Today's modern landscape of leaders fails to accurately represent societal diversity. This inequity, as in all inequities, is not accidental, but instead the results of socially constructed norms that begin in childhood. In this dissertation, I question how internalized norms of white supremacy and patriarchy perpetuate racial and gender aligned…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Equal Education, Social Differences, Whites
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Rickett, Bridgette; Morris, Anna – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Previous research exploring how working-class women experience UK Higher Education (HE) work has made evident recurring themes around social segregation and corresponding difficulties with feeling they belong. This paper develops this work by exploring the ways in which UK, HE based working-class women lecturers talk about their sense of…
Descriptors: Working Class, College Faculty, Women Faculty, Higher Education
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Sahlberg, Pasi; Cobbold, Trevor – School Leadership & Management, 2021
Equity has become a central principle in educational policy and leadership around the world. However, there is a wide range of interpretations of equity and what it means in education. In this article we explore different definitions of educational equity from policy and leadership perspectives. Our aim is to give an operational definition of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Educational Improvement
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Gristy, Cath; Letherby, Gayle; Watkins, Ruth – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
This paper explores the impact of selection by ability in schooling systems on individual lives. It draws on narratives collected with a group of 18 people (accessed through a local U3A group) who were at school in Britain in a period from the 1940s through to the 1960s. This period saw significant changes in society and to schooling following the…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Social Mobility, Foreign Countries, Age Groups
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Morley, Louise; Lund, Rebecca W. B. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
Women leaders are frequently treated as one class -- a homogenised group with essentialised skills and competencies in binary relationship to male leaders. We explore how feminist ways of knowing gender and leadership, and circulations of affects, shape women's diverse leadership practices and identities within the neoliberal, and neuroliberal…
Descriptors: Feminism, Instructional Leadership, Gender Differences, Women Administrators
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Börjesson, Mikael; Dalberg, Tobias – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Since the mid-twentieth century, higher education has been subject to spectacular growth. While the expansion of higher education is undoubtedly a general trend, its actual characteristics in terms of its specific conditions and driving forces vary by context. In this article, our aim is to develop such a socio-political historical narrative of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Neoliberalism, Marketing
Allen, Jeff; Suh, Hongwook; Heneger, Jeremy – ACT, Inc., 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruptions to the educational system in Nebraska and across the world. At the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, schools in Nebraska were forced to replace on-site instruction with virtual instruction. During the 2020-2021 academic year, many students learned online or under hybrid learning formats.…
Descriptors: Scores, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Entrance Examinations
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Naruho Ezaki – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2020
Purpose: While privatisation in education is expanding, the number of children transferring from public to private schools seeking high-quality education has increased. This study examined equality of educational opportunity, focussing on the attributes of individual children and their familial backgrounds. The target country is Nepal, which has…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality, Barriers
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